Reaction to True Education

Socrates suggested that one should “Look into their own selves and find the spark of truth that God has put into every heart and that only they can kindle to a flame”. I think this is true because when we are born we cannot do things like for example standing up, walking, speaking, etc. So we must acquire all these. These things are rather hard for young babies who do not know how to speak or walk, however, they are born with a certain potential that helps them to overcome most of the difficulties and by the end of the first year after birth they will have acquired the most important basic skills.
The first years are also very important for young children because there are things which are programmed in their memories (the potential for walking and speaking) and they have got things which they have to learn for example how to ride a bicycle, read and write, or speak foreign languages. These, however, are not too difficult because they can be mastered through practice. In primitive societies there is not much difference between the activities of the adults and the young, the games of the latter constitutes the preparation for becoming a helpful member of the community, which is achieved by almost all.
Somewhat different is the case in the more sophisticated industrial societies in which the intellect of the country have to go through academic training in the course of which applying to “the rules of reason, the inner knowledge of what is proper for men to be and do” may not be enough. How can one be able to “to sift evidence” without having a firm basis of knowledge to recognize what is evidence and what is false, misleading information?
In my opinion the problem quite often is that the educators themselves are not really aware of what is important and tend to oversize the load of material or overemphasize the importance of their own field of interest, which result in “indigestible mass of material”. Nevertheless, the acquisition of the basic skills including the important facts of evidence is inevitable.